mummy

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Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In most cases the “mummy portraits”—as the paintings are called—came to be pried or detached from the full mummy by excavators, archaeologists or thieves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Writing on Instagram, Rachel Duffy said she was "heartbroken" at the death of her "beautiful wee mummy".

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

They mapped a compact "mummy zone" within these rock layers, which represent stacked river sands.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

I tried to roll away from the direction of the light, but hands wrapped round my limbs like mummy bands, and I couldn't move.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath